The This Is Us actress, who is featured on Friday's cover of Peoplemagazine, admitting she fell into a "soul crushing" 10-year spiral of weight gain and depression.

On her hit show, her character Kate also struggles with body image issues.

“You have to use what you have and I wouldn’t have this role if I had already lost weight," she told People. "Now it’s about telling a story of a woman struggling with her weight, just as I have and still am."